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Salt Lake City 

The "Zion" of the New World. 

an outline of its 

natural beauty and 

, ■ manifold attractions. 

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D. C. DOUGE, Vice-1'res't and General Manager. 

S. H. Babcock, Traffic Manager. 

Geo. W. Heintt:, General Passenger AKent. 

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The City of the Saints. 

THE valley of the Great Salt Lake 
is renowned, but the traveler 
from the east, passing through hun- 
dreds of miles of the grand, rugged 
mountain scenery of Colorado, is 
hardly prepared to see a valley so 
wonderfully fertile. Its peaceful- 
ness and quiet beauty seem to con- 
trast sharply with the sterner views 
of nature still fresh in his memory. 
Approaching the «City of the 



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Saiiits» over 
the pictur- 
esque route of 
the Rio Grande 
Western Rail- 
way, glimpses 
are to be had 
of distant lakes shining in the sun- 
light or shadowed bypassing clouds; 
of cozy rural homes nestling amid 
vines; miles of little farms fenced 
with stately poplars and threaded 
by irrigation canals half hidden in 
the foliage. 

The city is quaint, beautiful and 
full of historic interest. It is the 
capital of Utah— the Zion of the 
Mormons— the one city in the west 




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to which his- 
tory, romance ^ 
and religion 
beckon the 

sight-seer. In 1847 the founders BurDiNo. 
— a handful of pioneers, the 
« Immortals)) of the Mormon people 
— ended their memorable pilgrim- 
age through more than a thousand 
miles of unbroken wilderness and 
laid in the desert solitudes the 
foundations of a great inter- 
mountain empire. In the story of 
western settlement Salt Lake City 
holds a place on every page. It 
was the stopping place of the Argo- 
nauts of '49, where they gained 
renewed strength and courage to 




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continue a jour- 
ney that would 
have daunted 
any but the 
bravest of men. 
To-day it is the 
center of a vast 
region filled 
RESIDE JcTs; with wealth antSiversified resources 
and the scene of activity in mining, 
manufacturing and commercial 
affairs. 

Salt Lake City lies in a field 
of beauty and is surrounded by 
mountains, awe-inspiring in their 
grandeur. The majestic Wasatch 
and Oquirrh ranges rise abruptly 
from the green valley, an entire 



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proportions bold and imposing. So 
close to the base is the city that 
a short drive transports one from 
its noisy center into the heart of 
the mountains. For the pedestrian 
there are innumerable walks wind- 
ing along clear mountain streams, 
and every fresh turn in the path 
adds to his pleasure in the views 
obtained. 

The city is laid out on a generous 
plan, with broad streets and great 




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squares. Once 
it was practi- 
cally walled 
about to protect it from its early 
foes, the Indians, and here and 
there sections of the old walls are 
still to be seen. In that day the 
city clustered around the founda- 
tions of the temple, but now has 
spread miles beyond in every 
direction. 

The old and the new are strangely 
blended in Salt Lake City, the 
homely architecture of half a cen- 
tury ago standing in the shadow 
of stately modern structures. 

What gives the city peculiar 
interest is the fact that it is, and 



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always has 
been, and prob- 
ably always will 
be the central 
city of the Mor- 
mon kingdom. 
The followers of 

the religion of Joseph Smith, num- 
bered by hundreds of thousands, 
regard it with strange reverence. 
It is the place of their greatest 
temple, the seat of their ecclesias- 
tical authority, the home of their 
prophet. Almost the first thing 
the visitor does upon reaching Salt 
Lake City is to visit the temple, 
which stands within sight and sound 
of the business center. Work began 



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on it with the 
first beat of 
the city's heart 
and continued 
unremittingly for forty years. It 
cost over four million dollars and is 
one of the notable buildings of the 
continent. It stands upon an emi- 
nence and towers above all sur- 
rounding objects, its whole form 
outlined against the sky long before 
the faintest sign of the city is to 
be seen. Its exterior is graven 
with the curious symbols of the 
Mormon creed, and its loftiest spire 
is surmounted full 215 feet above j 
the earth by the golden figure of 
Moroni, the angel who revealed the 



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religion of the 
Latter Day 
Saints to Joseph 

Smith. The interior of the temple 
is sacred — none but those of the 
faith are ever admitted through 
its iron doors. Within are cele- 
brated marriage and baptismal 
rites, and many are the mysteries 
its granite walls conceal. Within 
the high wall that surrounds the 
temple stands also the great turtle- 
shaped tabernacle, the assembly 
hall of the saints. This is one of 
the most unique structures in 
America. The wonderful acoustic 
properties of the building are tested 
every day by the dropping of a pin, 




and very often 
the great organ, 
famed like the 
building and 
sweeter toned 
than any in the 
land, is opened 
for "the visitor's entertainment. 
The tabernacle seats 9,000 people, 
and the Mormons worship there 
every Sabbath at two in the 
afternoon. 

Opposite the temple stands the 
« tithing yard,)) where all faithful 
saints are supposed to pay one-tenth 
of their earnings and profits to the 
church every year. 

Distant less than a square are 




the homes of Urigham Young, who 
led the people into the valley and 
to whose genius and powers of 
command is largely due the success 
they have attained. Brigham had 
many wives, but these homes are 
now deserted of them all. 

Over the portals of one of these 
homes is a lion in stone from the 
chisel of Ward, and another is sur- 
mounted by a beehive. The lion 
and beehive, representing strength 
and industry, are among the leading 




symbbk7l3f the ]\Iorm()n Church. 
Between the lion and beehive 
houses is an unpretentious building 
protected by a high wall. Brigham 
Young had his office there, and there 
to this day the president of the 
church will be found. Near by is 
the Eagle Gate, arching the 
entrance to City Creek Canyon, 
through which the most delightful 
drives extend. Posed for flight on 
the summit of the arch is a monster 




bronze eagle, 

looking down 

the longest 

street in L^tah, 

which extends 

as straight as the barrel uf a gun 

for twenty-two miles. 

Throughout the city are many 
old-fashioned houses with many 
entrances, reminders of the time, 
now happily passed away, when 
polygamy was quite the thing in 
Utah. 

The trees of Salt Lake City are 
a very prominent feature of its 
beauty. They were planted and 
well cared for years ago by the 
early settlers; not a few trees here 




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and there, but miles and miles of 
them. The broad streets are lined 
and thickly shaded by their foliage, 
and on the warmest summer's day 
one can walk with comfort in their 
cool shadow. It is a pretty sight 
to see the long avenues of green 
made by the overhanging branches 
of these noble trees. One can only 
get an idea of their number by 
reaching the top of some hill out- 



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side of the city. 
The view is well 
worth the effort, 
for as far as the 
eye can reach is 
the most luxuri- 
ant mass of foli- 
age, so tall and 
thick as to completely obscure the p'^arT 
houses. The entire valley looks 
like a magnificent forest, and with 
the mountains beyond presents a 
view indescribable. 

Three miles east of the city is 
situated the military post, Fort 
Douglas, which strangers always 
visit with interest. It is now 
quickly reached by electric cars 




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that run through a very pretty 
stretch of country. 

Utah's star attraction is Great 
Salt Lake, within twenty minutes' 
ride by rail of the city. Upon 
nearing it one of the most impres- 
sive objects that meet the eye is 
domed and minareted «Saltair,)) an 
immense open pavilion of Moorish ■ 
architecture four thousand feet 
from shore. It presents a dazzling m 
appearance at night, with its ■ 
myriad of electric lights displaying 
its form — a monster crescent -in a 
sea almost a mile above sea level. 




paradoxical as 

the statement 
is. Thousands 
of people daily- 
enjoy delights 
of bathing 
in the briny 
waters surrounding this beautiful 
pavilion, and of floating without 
effort upon the waves of a sea 
« deader and denser)) than the one 
around the shores of which in 
Palestine the Nazarene began the 
regeneration of mankind. The 
expression « floating without effort » 
is literally true, because it is impos- 
sible for one to sink. The peculiar 
properties of the water give to the 
bather a feeling of exhilaration and 



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CANYON. 




striength that tempts him to return 
day after day. The situation of this 
miniature sea — ninety miles long 
and forty miles wide — lying among 
mountains and dotted with islands 
is the prettiest imaginable, but its 
appearance is loveliest when the sun 
sinks behind the hills, coloring sky 
and water the most gorgeous hues. 
It would take weeks for the most 
active lover of nature to exhaust 
all the sights and pleasures to be 




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derived from exploring this most lakeside 
favored country. Many short 
excursions by rail can be taken in 
all directions from the city to fine 
mountain resorts situated on the 
banks of lovely lakes, where fish- 
ing, boating and mountain climbing 
can be enjoyed to the utmost. 

To the traveler bent upon scien- 
tific or mineral research the mining 
districts of Utah — recently opened 
up with such amazingly rich results 
— offer a field of unsurpassed inter- 
est. All the mining centers, Tintic, 
Park City and Bingham, lie within 



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a coupi^ff^RoSrs' ride over any on^' 
of the numerous branches of the 
Rio Grande Western Railway. 

From the east there are three „ 
routes by which the visitor may ^ 
reach the city of Zion, and all lead * 
through one great highway — the 
Rio Grande Western Railway, «Great 
Salt Lake Route.)) One is the Den- 
ver & Rio Grande Standard Gauge, 
which whirls you past Colorado 
Springs, through the Grand Can- 
yon, the Royal Gorge and Leadville, 
over the Great Divide and down 



the Pacific Slope past beautiful 
Glenwood Springs. Another is the 
Denver & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge, 
through the Grand Canyon, the 
Royal Gorge, over the dizzy heights 
of Marshall Pass and through the 
Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Still 
another is the Colorado Midland 
route, which takes you by the gate- 
way of the Garden of the Gods, 
under the shadow of Pike's Peak, 
through Ute Pass, Leadville and the 
famous Hagerman tunnel — more 
than two miles above the level of 
the sea — and on down the western 
slope through Glenwood Springs. 




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